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I didn't know until recently the landing method they used for this flight. Gagarin was incredibly brave. First, the Vostok reentered and opened a parachute to
by cameldrv 6y ago
I didn't know until recently the landing method they used for this flight. Gagarin was incredibly brave.
First, the Vostok reentered and opened a parachute to slow down. Then it blew the hatch and fired him out of the capsule in his ejection seat, which fired its own parachute. Then somewhat lower, Gagarin had to jump out of the ejection seat with his own parachute and land. That is a lot of things that all have to work to land safely.
- aasasd 6y agoSo it's parachutes all the way down.
- avmich 6y agoAnd this is one of simpler spacecrafts. I'd really prefer Dream Chaser to get completed, I think failure modes on winged crafts are better.
- vassilevsky 6y agoAlways has been.
- userulluipeste 6y agoIt's possible that the multiple parachute system to be just built-in redundancies out of functional safety reasons, so that any successfully deployed parachute to actually render the next parachute deployment unnecessary.